Explosives experts defused two bombs at Cairo Airport on Tuesday, airport security director Alaa Ali told Al-Ahram Arabic news website. The explosives were planted under cars in the parking lot adjacent to terminal 3 of the airport on the eastern … read more
Al Jazeera English journalist Peter Greste was released Sunday morning upon a presidential decree, MENA state news agency confirmed. Families of journalists involved in the Al Jazeera trial, had said earlier that Australian journalist Peter Greste left prison early Sunday … read more
Cairo criminal court sentenced on Monday Islamist Mamdouh Ismail in absentia to life in prison for his role in the violent events in Roed El-Farag in the aftermath of the dispersal of pro-Morsi sit-ins in the summer of 2013, Al-Ahram … read more
A unit of the Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank, a multilateral lending institution, has provided $80 million worth of sharia-compliant reinsurance to cover political risk for oil and gas projects in Egypt. Such credit guarantees by reinsurers like the Islamic Corporation for the … read more
Australian journalist Peter Greste will be deported to Australia on Sunday afternoon, state-run MENA cited an official as saying. According to MENA the decision comes after the approval of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The source said the Egyptian Foreign Ministry … read more
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will meet on Sunday with several heads of political parties to tackle security developments in Sinai. Mohamed Esmat al-Sadat, president of Development and Reform Party, said he received an invitation from the presidency to take part … read more
Egypt’s income from tourism, an important sector of the economy, rose 27 percent to $7.5 billion in 2014 from $5.9 billion the previous year, the tourism minister said on Sunday. The country received 9.9 million tourists in 2014, up from … read more
Egypt‘s pound weakened to 7.59 per dollar, from 7.49 at the last sale, at a central bank auction on Sunday, the weakest level it has been allowed to reach since auctions began in December 2012. The bank offered 40 million … read more
AFP After having used the Internet profusely for propaganda and recruitment, jihadist organisations have realised that investigators are gleaning crucial information online and are increasingly concealing their web presence, experts say. Apart from recent orders given to fighters to limit … read more
Thousands of mourners attended the funerals of a number of Egyptian soldiers who were killed in coordinated militant attacks in Sinai on Thursday. Egyptian television stations showed thousands of people marching in funeral processions in the Nile Delta governorates of … read more